Neowin News Feed for: Settles

Vonage Settles AT&T Suit

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:57:40 +0000

Internet phone-company Vonage has settled the last of its patent disputes which have drained much-needed money from the company. In a press release yesterday, Vonage stated simply: "Vonage and AT&T have entered into a definitive... Read more...

Seagate settles suit over disk capacity

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:22:15 +0000

Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2005 plus pay up to $1.79... Read more...

Vonage Settles Verizon Patent Suit

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:03:29 +0000

With the recent security issues and patent infringement suit with AT&T, internet phone company Vonage needs all the good news it can get. The company announced today that it has settled a patent lawsuit brought... Read more...

Vonage Settles Sprint Nextel Patent Suit

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:39:11 +0000

It seems like just a few weeks ago when some were predicting the demise of Vonage after an unfriendly verdict awarding Sprint $69.5 million in damages along with a percentage of Vonage's future revenue. Today,... Read more...

BMG settles Napster lawsuit for $130M

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:38:33 +0000

Media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG has settled a copyright infringement case by paying $130 million US to the National Music Publishers' Association, a trade association that represents more than 700 U.S. music publishers. The latest deal... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Eolas Patent Feud

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:52:33 +0000

Intellectual property licensing firm Eolas has announced in a letter to its share holders that it has settled a patent lawsuit with Microsoft over a method to embed interactive components into a web page, such... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Lawsuit Over Bricked Xbox 360 Console

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:01:48 +0000

When Microsoft released the Fall Dashboard Update in 2006 for the Xbox 360, users expected new features. What no one expected was that the update crashed consoles, rendering them mostly useless. Microsoft quickly acknowledged and... Read more...

IEEE group settles on faster Ethernet plans

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:02:45 +0000

A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG),... Read more...

Defendant settles with RIAA after motion for sanctions fails

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:33:00 +0000

A federal judge in Texas has sanctioned the attorney of a defendant in one of the RIAA's countless file-sharing lawsuits after the attorney himself requested sanctions for the RIAA's counsel. Not long afterwards, the parties... Read more...

RIM Settles With Samsung Over BlackJack

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:11:57 +0000

Remember when Apple got its panties in a bunch over some company using "i" in front of their product? Well now there's the Research in Motion BlackBerry and the Samsung BlackJack. RIM doesn't like the... Read more...

FTC finally settles with Sony BMG over rootkit

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:18:19 +0000

Sony BMG started with a class-action lawsuit, continued with a settlement with state attorneys general and ended with the federal government. I use the term "ended" very loosely. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced... Read more...

Alleged Porn Spammer settles with FTC

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:49:30 +0000

TJ Web Productions, an alleged marketer of online porn has agreed to pay a $465,000 penalty to settle spam charges as well as adhere to federal spam laws. Yipee, less spam! I wish it were... Read more...

Sony BMG settles suit over CDs

Tom Warren — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:58 +0000

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers'... Read more...

Apple Settles With Creative For $100 Million

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:04:29 +0000

Apple and Creative have resolved their legal disputes which started on May 15th of this year when Creative and Apple sued each other claiming patent infringement. According to a joint-press release, Apple will pay Creative... Read more...

Microsoft Settles California Antitrust Claims

Wed, 03 May 2006 18:37:10 +0000

Microsoft Corp., tentatively agreed to pay $70 million in vouchers to several California municipalities to settle an antitrust claim that it used its market dominance to overcharge government customers, plaintiff lawyers said on Tuesday. The... Read more...

Google Settles 'Click Fraud' Suit

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:18:35 +0000

Google has agreed to pay up to settle a law suit whichalleged that customers of their ad program were being billed falsely forclick-throughs that never occurred. The suit focused on Google benefitting, anddoing next to... Read more...

Apple settles with third alleged Tiger leaker

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:20:48 +0000

Apple Computer has settled with the last of three men it said leaked prerelease versions of Mac OS X Tiger onto the Internet. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it has reached... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Suit Against Former Spammer

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:18:10 +0000

Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it had settled a lawsuit against Scott Richter, whom it identified as a former "spam king." Microsoft said that as part of the settlement Richter and his company agreed... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Infringement Suit

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:02:16 +0000

Microsoft and Alacritech have settled a dispute over networking technology the software giant plans to use in future versions of Windows. Alacritech, which sued Microsoft for patent infringement last year, announced... Read more...

Microsoft Settles IBM Antitrust Claims

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:03:28 +0000

Microsoft and IBM have settled outstanding legal claims stemming from the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft in the mid-1990s. The agreement, announced Friday, will result in a $775 million payment to... Read more...

Apple settles with Tiger leaker

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:56:26 +0000

Apple Computer has reached a settlement with one of the men it sued for online distribution of its unreleased Mac OS X Tiger operating system. Apple said on Wednesday that it has... Read more...

Microsoft Settles With Burst.com

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:24:14 +0000

On the day Microsoft and Burst.com were to square off again in a Baltimore courtroom, the tiny Santa Rosa, Calif.-based company announced that it had agreed to settle its seven-year-old suit against the software giant.... Read more...

Microsoft Settles With Novell : $536 Million

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:12:52 +0000

Microsoft have announced a massive out of court settlement worth $536 million with Novell. The settlement relates to anti-trust claims Novell made against Microsoft, with relation to Novell's Netware product amongst others. The... Read more...

IBM Settles Pension Suit in Part, Continues Appeal

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:44:32 +0000

IBM said Wednesday that it has reached a partial settlement in a massive lawsuit alleging that it discriminated against older workers when it switched pension plans in 1999. Under the terms of the agreement --... Read more...

FTC Settles Case Involving Windows Pop-Up Ads

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:20:15 +0000

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Squared Solutions reached an agreement regarding Squared Solutions business practices. Squared Solutions used Microsoft's Windows Messenger to sell pop-up blocking software to consumers (which would show... Read more...

Apple settles with patent holder on iTunes

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:50:32 +0000

Apple Computer has become the latest in a line of companies licensing patents from the relatively obscure E-Data, a company that claims to hold property rights on the process of selling music online. ... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Consumer Lawsuit in New Mexico

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:36:12 +0000

Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it will pay New Mexico consumers as much as $31.5 million to settle a class action claiming the world's largest software maker had overcharged for software. The settlement, which received... Read more...

Apple settles Rendezvous trademark dispute

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:45:54 +0000

The networking software from Apple known as Rendezvous is now OpenTalk. This name changes comes after Apple has reached an agreement with Tibco Software. Last year Tibco Software accused Apple of infringing on... Read more...

Spam sender settles N.Y. case

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:32:21 +0000

Scott Richter has agreed to pay $40,000 a fine and an additional $10,000 for sending deceptive junk e-mail. By settling like this Scott Richter's has avoided hiring lawyers to defend his company, and therefore... Read more...

Microsoft settles Massachusetts suit

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:15:19 +0000

Once again this week Microsoft has settled another class action lawsuit. This time in Massachusetts. Where Microsoft has agreed to pay more than $1.5 billion. Microsoft Corp. will offer... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Arizona Lawsuit

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:47:49 +0000

Microsoft and the state of Arizona reached an agreement Tuesday. The class-action lawsuit alleged that Microsoft overcharged its customers in the state. According to PCWorld "The deal provides Arizona software buyers with up... Read more...

AOL settles class action lawsuits

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:25:05 +0000

AOL has agreed to settle two class action lawsuits in the US by punters who alleged the giant Internet company continued to bill them even after they cancelled their subscriptions. Although the ISP "vigorously denies... Read more...

FTC Settles With Alleged Spammers

Fri, 07 May 2004 20:22:32 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled charges against two alleged spammers who used what the FTC called "deceptively bland subject lines," false return addresses, and other methods to lure unsuspecting consumers, including children, to... Read more...

Microsoft settles Minnesota antitrust case

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:56:30 +0000

Microsoft on Monday reached a settlement with consumers in Minnesota to end an antitrust suit that claimed that the company had overcharged for its Windows operating system and its Office application software. According... Read more...

Microsoft settles music download suit

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:42:28 +0000

New York company E-Data said on Tuesday that it has settled a patent infringement suit filed against Microsoft and others, based on music download services in Europe. Last October, the small company... Read more...

Microsoft settles $60 million video patent dispute

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:49:28 +0000

Microsoft has settled a patent infringement case by cutting a licensing deal and paying the plaintiff $60 million. ImagExpo GmbH, a Munich-based subsidiary of the large US industrial manufacturer SPX Corporation, claimed that Microsoft's now... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Patent Case For $60M

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:01:14 +0000

Microsoft agreed Wednesday to pay Imagexpo $60 million to settle a case involving disputed technology used in the Redmond, Wash., giant's NetMeeting product. Imagexpo is a subsidiary of SPX Corp., an electronics manufacturer based in... Read more...

Microsoft Settles Tennessee Class Action Lawsuit

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:27:19 +0000

Microsoft said on Friday it would pay consumers of its software up to $64 million to settle a class action lawsuit contending that it overcharged for its products. The settlement, which was previously announced with... Read more...

Microsoft settles with North Carolina

Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:46:06 +0000

Microsoft has agreed to pay as much as $89 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in North Carolina that alleged the vendor overcharged for its software. Under the settlement, North Carolina residents who bought Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft settles some state lawsuits

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:33:10 +0000

Microsoft has reached settlements in some state class-action lawsuits it has been defending, the company said Tuesday. Details about the settlements will be released later in the day, Microsoft said. Ever since... Read more...